Chris Riccomini - Building (and Writing About) Data Intensive Applications

This book is the official guide to Rust, an open-source systems programming language. It covers everything from the basics of creating functions, choosing data types, and binding variables to advanced concepts such as ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, error handling, and fearless concurrency. The book includes concept chapters and project chapters, where readers apply what they have learned by building small programs, including a number-guessing game, a Rust implementation of a command line tool, and a multithreaded server. It emphasizes Rust’s ability to provide low-level control without the traditional risks of crashes or security holes, making it suitable for a wide range of programming tasks, from CLI apps to web servers.

This book helps software engineers and architects understand the pros and cons of various technologies for storing and processing data. It covers fundamental principles, trade-offs, and design decisions in data systems, including scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. The book delves into distributed systems research, the architecture of data systems, and how to make informed decisions about different tools and technologies. It does not provide detailed instructions on specific software packages but focuses on the underlying principles and trade-offs essential for designing data-intensive applications[2][4][5].